Texie
Feminine
Texie belongs to the eighteen-eighties, when American families gave daughters place names with an affectionate ending attached. The place name it is built on is not Spanish and not English: it is a word one people used for another, and the state kept the sense of it.
How old is the name Texie?
Texie first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Texie alive today was born around 1919, making them about 106 years old. Fewer than a hundred people named Texie are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
When was the name Texie most popular?
Texie peaked in 1881, reaching #679 nationally. See the whole 1881 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Texie
Texas is a Caddo word. Spanish missionaries in the late seventeenth century recorded that the people of the Hasinai confederacy greeted them with taysha, meaning friends or allies, and the Spanish took it for the name of the nation and then of the province, writing it tejas. It is not a Spanish word and it does not describe the land; it describes a relationship, and the relationship was an alliance against the Apache. The state kept the sense when it chose its motto, which is the single word Friendship, and the Caddo confederacy that supplied the word was largely destroyed by disease and displacement within two centuries of the encounter. The name on the map is a greeting recorded by the people it was addressed to.
Meaningnot established
Not established
It may be the state name with the familiar ending the period attached to everything, or it may be a clipping of a longer name. Both patterns are well attested in the same decade and the record does not distinguish them.
Pronouncing Texie
TEK-see
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The x is doing its usual job of carrying two consonants, so the name is three sounds longer than it looks.
Nicknames for Texie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1881
- Most girls named
- 192222 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #679reached in 1881
- Change vs 1956
- −16.7%5 in 2022, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Texies among us
Fewer than a hundred people named Texie are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Texie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Two syllables with front stress is easy to say and hard to mishear.
- Tex detaches as a short form with a long history of its own.
- Five letters with no silent ones make it simple to spell aloud.
- It is unmistakably a place name with an ending, and readers will hear the state first.
- Texanna, Texia and Tessie will all be written for it.
- Nothing records its origin, so the meaning question has two answers and no evidence.
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Frequently asked
- How many Texies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. Fewer than a hundred people named Texie are estimated to be alive in the US today — a true one-of-a-kind name.
- How popular is the name Texie in 2025?
- Texie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Texie with classmates?
- Texie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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